On our way home from the grocery store tonight, I said to Anne, "Have you heard of this Tumblr called I'm Remembering?" "No," she said, "what's that?" "It's all these images and things from the eighties and early nineties, and it's pretty awesome." In spite of myself, I added with a rather copio...

Trying to think about something else for a moment ... When we shoot a TV show or a movie, we often have to cheat our looks closer or farther away from the camera during our closeups. Most of the time, the place we're supposed to look is marked with a piece of tape, like an orange X, for exampl...

Greetings from Portland! I'm here for the next few days to work on an episode of Leverage, playing a character who I have a few things in common with, as evidenced by something that happened earlier today during my costume fitting. The costume designer is an incredibly kind and easy going woman....

Raiders of the Lost Ark seems like it would have been impossible to beat without the manual. I can't imagine I would *ever* have thought of the things the book said to do.
I never beat either of the Swordquest games I had. I didn't have the manual for Earthworld and didn't have the clue-containing comic book for Fireworld. I don't know if they even made the other two they were supposed to do.

This week's LA Daily is alive ... IT'S ALIVE! "This is how we started playing video games at home when we were kids," I told them. "Yeah, your uncle and I got this for Christmas in 1977," Anne said. "Boy, you guys are so old," Nolan - who was 5 at the time - said. "We are totally old," I said...

There are spoilers in the rest of this post, so if you're a player in Keep on the Shadowfell, or plan to be, you should skip this until you've completed the adventure. Otherwise, follow me, as they say, after the jump, for something pretty funny... This is from the comments on my post and so th...

Over the weekend, I started a 4E campaign for Nolan and his friends. The plan is to take them through the entire Keep on the Shadowfell module, and then probably into Thunderspire Labyrinth, with possible detours into various level-appropriate Delves, or something from Monte Cook's awesome ne...

Over the weekend, I started a 4E campaign for Nolan and his friends. The plan is to take them through the entire Keep on the Shadowfell module, and then probably into Thunderspire Labyrinth, with possible detours into various level-appropriate Delves, or something from Monte Cook's awesome ne...

One of the super-useful bits of advice I picked up somewhere about writing and blogging goes like this: most people can't write for a book and a blog at the same time, because our brains get different kinds of feedback and rewards from each. For most of us, if we had to pick, we'll write in our ...

One of the super-useful bits of advice I picked up somewhere about writing and blogging goes like this: most people can't write for a book and a blog at the same time, because our brains get different kinds of feedback and rewards from each. For most of us, if we had to pick, we'll write in our ...

My table in the vendor's room at the Phoenix Comicon was right next to Aaron Douglas. Aaron is a good friend, and he knows that I'm a huge fan of his show and admirer of his work. He also knows that I'm way behind on BSG (near the end of season 3) so he's made this heroic effort to protect me fr...

Oh man, I had more fun than should be legally allowed while working on this month's Geek in Review, Sci-Fi Guilty Pleasures: Schwarzenegger Edition: Long before he was the most dangerously incompetent governor California has ever had, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the biggest action superstar on th...

Oh man, I had more fun than should be legally allowed while working on this month's Geek in Review, Sci-Fi Guilty Pleasures: Schwarzenegger Edition: Long before he was the most dangerously incompetent governor California has ever had, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the biggest action superstar on th...

Last night, I saw a column at Newsarama that infuriated me. It's been taken offline, so I can't quote it, but the basic premise was that Wesley Crusher was playing Ted Kord, so Ted Kord was a Redshirt, because Wesley was a Redshirt, so now you know how lame that episode is going to be ha ha ha. ...

Since Friday of last week, I've done about eleventy million interviews to support my episode of Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Fall of the Blue Beetle, which airs next friday, January 23, at 8pm on Cartoon Network. I recorded this episode several months ago, and I haven't been able to talk abou...

Today is my friend Andrew's birthday. I know Andrew because he read my blog a million years ago (in internet time) and saw that I was a fan of various Steve Jackson games. At the time, Andrew worked at SJGames on some projects you may have heard of, like Chez Geek, Munchkin, GURPS 4th Edition, a...

If you are of a certain age, there are probably three seminal music videos that blew your mind at one point in your life: Money for Nothing, You Might Think, and Take on Me . (Sigh. Okay, fine, and the extended version of Thriller. At least I'll admit it. Shut up.) Anyway, my friend Jun (who is...

I'm a Doctor Who fan in a Star Trek country. I don't even have other Who fans to fight with over which Doctor is better.
But do people really take offense when someone else enjoys a different comic book than the first person's favorite? That's really odd.

QFT: You can, of course, substitute "movie" or "game" or "novel" for "comic book" as necessary. The thing is, I have to laugh about this, because if there's one thing geeks excel at, it's taking something we love and turning it into something to argue about. (Thanks to Kevin Church. If you li...

The only episode of LotL that scared me as a kid was the one where Holly walks into an unusual pylon and there was some weird lighting effect and then she was walking around with that wand like some sort of non-cannibalistic living zombie. It was that weird light that scared me, really. I don't remember it well enough to recall what was scary about it, though.

Did you know that Walter Koenig (who, by the way, told me Happiest Days was "delightful," Squee!) created the character of Enik on Land of the Lost? Did you know that Harlan Ellison wrote a story for the show that was never produced? Oh! Oh! Oh! Did you know that David Gerrold came up with a who...

I was a Who fan in the eighties, and I was the only one around here as far as I knew. (Well, there was one other, but he moved to Orlando.) I used to catch a lot of hell from all the Trekkies on the BBS's for defending Dr. Who.
The only fan term I've ever heard is "Whovian," but I'm not married to it or anything.
Genesis of the Daleks was one of the high points of the Baker years, but in my opinion, there were a bunch of high points. Tom Baker was my first Doctor.
I never got into an argument about which Doctor was the best. I was defending myself against rabid Trekkies.

I should have finished my script yesterday, but the goddamn sinusitis completely knocked me out. Luckily, used a winning combination of Sudafed, Mucinex, Advil, and sitting on the couch next to a humidifier to prevent this thing from developing into something really nasty, like a Moose Bite. ...

I'm not over Heroes yet. This season has spent a lot of time on characters I don't know, but it took me some time in the first season before I liked all of *those* characters.
I'm willing to wait to see how these new plots are going to work out before I give up on it.

I promise this isn't going to turn into "The Happiest Days Reviews: in Exile." It's just that I needed to come up for air for a minute, and saw this review of Happiest Days at Tech Universe: Reading the well-written Happiest Days was a fun experience, and you can't help but feel like Wheaton is ...

That sounds great, Wil!
So is this going to be a recurring douchebag or just a one-time thing?
Man, I would freak the fuck out meeting Rob Morrow. Northern Exposure was such a great show (until he left the show), and so is Numb3rs!

I put on Miles Sklar's suit and attitude today for my part of a three page scene where I got to be a serious douchebag. We did a lot of takes on the scene, and over the course of six hours I noticed that it's equally easy for me to commit to being a kind, sensitive, vulnerable person as it is fo...

There was a time when I called myself an actor/writer. Then I realized that, saying it aloud, I was calling myself an actor, slash writer. While I suppose this would be immensely appealing to some people, it's not how I wish to be remembered by history, so I made an effort to call myself a write...

I'd like to think that your saying "Don't be a dick" at a gamer con will have some effect, but it's not like a guy doesn't know he shouldn't be a dick.
But anyway, I enjoyed hearing the speech.
Unfortunately, I never once saw Wizard of Wor at any arcade.

I'm home from PAX, which was the best time I've ever had at a convention. Man, I wish I'd started going in 2004, because I think I've found an annual home. My keynote went perfectly, and the audience (and the gaming press online) responded to it in ways I never dreamed possible. I didn't think t...